Factors That Will Govern The Quality of Your Birdnests!!!

Basically there are three crucial factors that will govern your birdnest qualities.

They are:

1) The Color

2) The Shape and

3) The Size.

Birdnest Color:

Red colored birdnest will normally fetch the highest price in the market. Some people claimed that they are more then twice the value of those white colored.



The reason why these nests turned to red is mainly the exposure to the right temperature, humidity and the content of the ammonia in the room. It is said that with the right temperature, humidity and those ammonia (bi product of birdshit oxidation) ,a kind of oxidation will turn those nests on the nesting planks to red.

White colored are said to be the base price. The price will be governed by the impurities left in the nest. The dirtier the nest, especially from feathers and dirts made by the young babies, the value of these nests will slide downward.



You can get a better valued white nests if they are harvested before the eggs are being laid. Since the nests are not at all being used by the bird to lay any eggs and no babybirds using it, the impurities in the nest are minimal.

Those that are harvested after the two eggs are being laid are the medium in price. It will be better quality as compared to those nests harvested after the baby birds flew away.

Yellow colored nests are not that pricy as compared to those white colored. People tend to think that yellow colored nests are not very good quality. In actual fact, those nests that changed from white to red will normally change color to yellow before becoming red.



Yellow colored nests are also due to the temperature, humidity and the oxidation process taken place in the house. However due to lower content of ammonia in the room, the process to become red are halted.

There are also blue colored nests. These nests fetch a much lower price then yellow colored. I am not pretty sure what cause them to turn to blue but my sifu indicated that they might be due to different type of environment ...

My favourite is the chocolate colored nests. This will be those that were not properly kept after harvesting and they fetch a terrible value. It is better to throw them away. Normally they smell bad too. Well maybe the chocolate might have some anti cancer properties, who knows ......

The most unsual is the black colored nests. I have not seen one but a friend of mine saw it in Surabaya. According to nest owner, when those nests turned into red, you need to slow down the oxidation process. If they are allowed to continue, the red color will transform into black.

They are as black as those charcoal and value wise is pretty ugly.

I will continue my next article about the other two factors tommorrow......